VN - Ren'Py - Wicked Ways [v0.6] [LewdsMeister]

The story is just not good, the writing is fine but that story just no.

I was expecting it to be choice driven from what is tells us on front page,

"As you balance your career with complex relationships, you'll find yourself drawn into a web of romance and moral dilemmas. The game features slice-of-life and semi-harem elements, where your choices often blur the lines between loyalty and passion, drawing you deeper into the intricate lives of those you engage with."

But you dont balance anything what so ever, you dont controle anything and the so called choices are so bad that its almost funny, first bimbo which is either Eva you get a "choice" of calling it for the night and invite her for coffee, and guess what happens when you call it for the night, you go for coffee....why....then your trown into a relationship with her starting out with fucking her....why....

I personaly dident want anything to do with her so that was an instant turn-off and also kills any immersion that story could have had, but with out having any kind of controle thats just not possible, dident want anything to do with Amanda either but yeah she got fucked to...so now MC is in two relationships? with me as the player having nothing to say in it.....no wait 3 relationship cant forget about the bimbo Samantha....where you at one point again get 2 choices "call her a cab or let her stay for the night, and you might have guessed it and seen the pattern by now, picking call her a cab and she ends out staying the night fucking MC, its truely an awfull game.

Girls dident do much for me either, they are pretty much pure bimbos and im just not into the hole big tit fetish and i feels its idiotic that devs dosent make better diversity in builds to suit more people which would mean more support.

Animations are meh, i would say a bit below average.

Game is also silent which makes it even more boring to play through, but it does have some extreemly annoying sounds in main menu.....why....

This is a hard pass for me, i dont even see how this could be saved other then a full remake.

The overview states " As your relationships blur lines, moral dilemmas arise. "

But this isn't the case. In Chapter 1, you don't get to steer the MC towards or away from any relationships - so they are not "yours." You are forcibly put into several "cheating" scenario's.

Then you're, I guess, supposed to care about MC's dilemma.

There's not enough player agency to care.

The sex scenes would be great for 2014, they're extremely sub-standard now, sadly. Too stilted, poor animations.

The dialogue is utilitarian, it gives you enough information so you know what's going on. But it doesn't flow and make you feel the characters or immerse you into the story.

A game with great potential, beautiful graphics and setting, the story promising, but it can be improved, having the options to get angry or reason is a nice way of acting, a new way of even
see the NTR VNs finally, in a different way, not the usual paths. Congratulations on your start..

I think the word that this reminds me of is "middling". The story isn't good, not because of misspelling and implausibility, but because it takes itself seriously and gives us no reason to do the same. The developer tries to add depth to the MC's job, but knows nothing about the industry he's talking about or business meetings in general, and so this part of the story that the dev has made critical to the story is almost childish in it's simplicity and reminds you it's just a porn set-up.

The models are well-done and the backgrounds aren't bad, but unfortunately the words behind the models don't have much to cling onto, and thus they end up feeling relatively lifeless.

For people who just care about the sexual content: there's two sex scenes in the game at the moment, not a bad count for a first release really.

I'm giving it a 2/5, but it's a high 2. I'd give it a 4/10 if I could. I believe the dev CAN make a better product, but ultimately I have to review it on whether I believe people should invest their time into reading it, and I just don't believe there's enough to entice people.[Review for 0.1]

0.1 Review:
Well.... The plot is a classic porn plot. There's nothing bad about it, just don't expect something deep and profound. Good renders except for some parts in sex scene and anim that could use improvement. The plot so far is ok but the dialogue is meh. The length of 0.1 is around 30 mins. This could be a good avn in the future and it can be improved. Not bad imo so 4 stars.

This game on it's release launch (0.1 version) falls somewhere in the middle due to different reasons. First of, the story could be interesting, but the characters don't behave in a believable way in any case. They are supposed to be professionals and yet they quickly forget that and move on to quick fucks with little believable buildups for them. There are also no choices so far, so you end up cheating on your fiancee without any alternatives, taking the tension away. And since there is little buildup to anything, the payout isn't great either.

Render quality is pretty decent, to be honest, but animations are too basic. Sounds are few and don't add much to the game. And it has some occasional linguistical problems especially with how the characters express themselves.

All in all, it can improve and become a decent or even good game, but it can also quickly fall down to the two stars. Time will tell.

Updating on v0.2: I believe this lost the third star into remaining with two and I'll probably drop the game here. The development in my opinion is not solving the issues but continuing with them, and the story is uninteresting to me.